Direct ink writing (DIW), a promising technology for manufacturing energetic materials, has been a hot topic in the micro-scale charge of explosives. Herein, three kinds of pentaerythrite tetranitrate (PETN)-based all-liquid explosive inks were engineered and patterned using DIW. Scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry, and nanoindentation were used to characterize the printed samples. The density, thickness of single layer, impact sensi-tivity and critical size of detonation were measured and analyzed. Results show that PETN/EC/Viton exhibits excellent properties, specifically greater activation energy (148.09 KJ mol À1 ), elastic modulus (2.808 GPa), and characteristic height (49.9 cm, 2.5 kg), over the two other samples. Moreover, a directly deposited sample in small grooves can provide steady detonation above the size of 1 3 0.101 mm. These features all contribute to the application of microsize detonation to a certain degree.